Lectures related to Actuator Selection

Robotics: Actuation and Mobility Analysis

Covers corrected exercises from the 2020 exam in the field of robotics, including topics such as accuracy, speed, DC motors, optimal gear ratio, dynamics of robot arms, encoders, and kinematics.

Direct Current Machines: Principles and Applications

Provides an overview of direct current machines, covering their principles, construction, and applications in various fields.

Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Modeling

Covers mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, focusing on electromechanical systems and DC servomotors.

DC Motors: Excitation and Induced Voltage

Covers the principles of DC motors, excitation types, induced voltage equations, power balance, and operating modes.

Synchronous Motors: Permanent Magnet Applications and Characteristics

Discusses the principles and applications of synchronous motors with permanent magnets, focusing on their operation and performance characteristics.

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

Explores the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor, focusing on power balance, torque characteristics, and an example with a BMW 130i.

Robotics Actuators

Explores hydraulic, pneumatic, and electromechanical actuators used in robotics, including stepper motors and specific energy comparisons.

Reduced Inertia and Torque: Transmission Principles

Explores reducing inertia and torque in mechanical systems with one degree of freedom.

Components: Actuators and Gear Boxes

Covers the sizing and selection of motors and actuators, gear boxes, sensors, cables, and gauges in space mechanisms.

Electric Motor: Construction Tutorial

Demonstrates the construction of an electric motor using basic materials and tools.

Parallel Excitation Motor: Propeller Aerodynamics

Explores parallel excitation motors in propeller aerodynamics for flying robots.

Exergy and Electrical Motors: Fuel Cell Insights

Discusses exergy, electrical motors, and introduces fuel cells, focusing on their efficiency and operational principles.

Stepper Motor: Principles and Applications

Covers the principles and applications of stepper motors, focusing on a hybrid stepper motor with a 1.8-degree step size.

Magnetostatics: Applications and Laplace's Force

Explores the applications of Lorentz force and Laplace's force in devices like galvanometers and electric motors.

Electric Motors: Principles and Applications

Explores electric motor principles, linearity, control systems, active suspensions, and Laplace transforms.

Robot Control: Strategies and Controllers

Explores robot control strategies, decentralized controllers, and the role of P, PD, and PID controllers in position control of DC motors.

Electric Propulsion: Fundamentals and Applications

Covers the principles and applications of electric propulsion in various fields.

Synchronous Motors: Basics and Applications

Explores the basics and applications of synchronous motors, highlighting their evolution in different industries.

Basic Elements of Electric Machines

Covers the basic elements of electric machines, including magnetic circuits and different types of motors.

Induction Motors: Starting Methods and Characteristics

Discusses asynchronous induction motors, focusing on their starting methods and characteristics, including star-delta and auto-transformer techniques.